Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (24 February 1774-8 July 1850) was the Duke of Cambridge, Viceroy of Hanover, and a Field Marshal of the British Army. The tenth child of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, he commanded British forces during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Prince Adolphus was the tenth child and seventh son of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and he was made an honorary colonel in a foot guard regiment of the Hanoverian army in 1781. He studied under Field Marshal Wilhelm von Freytag and served on his staff during the Flanders campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793; the two of them were wounded and captured at the Battle of Hondschoote before being rescued. He rose to the rank of British Army colonel in 1794 and to Lieutenant-General in 1798. In 1803, he headed to England rather than capitulate to the invading Prussian and French armies, and Hanover was occupied by France. In 1803, he became commander-in-chief of the King's German Legion, and he rose to the rank of Field Marshal in 1813. From 1813 to 1816, he served as Military Governor of Hanover, and then as Governor General from 1816 to 1831 and Viceroy from 1831 to 1837. He returned to Britain after Ernest Augustus I of Hanover acceded to the throne, and the Duke of Cambridge died in Cambridge House, Piccadilly in 1850 at the age of 76.